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waffle

[wof-uhl] / ˈwɒf əl /


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Along with six all-beef hot dogs and six sauces, the $60 tower comes with waffle fries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

"I was listening to the chairman last week and it was the usual waffle that we get from the Celtic boardroom," John Dykes said on the Scottish Football Podcast.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026

Don’t be shy about shape or size — shoestring, steak-cut, crinkle, waffle, sweet potato — I’ll even give a pass to tater tots for the sake of this exercise.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025

Boots and waffle stompers tracked mud and icy water into the halls of Irwin J. Sneed Elementary School, where the wearers were met by Mr. Costa holding a large mop.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

When I last wrote this, manager Dave Roberts waffled on the question of whether Kershaw was the greatest Dodger pitcher ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

But the Houthis, fearing an inspection might be a prelude to taking the oil, waffled.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

While she waffled between asking Ham and not asking him, she never gave a thought to asking Julian Singh.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

But Mike Bonin, a progressive former council member, said that what others see as waffling is really a politician willing to change her positions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

When “Yellowstone,” Sheridan’s first show, premiered in 2018, #MeToo was reverberating across television with producers waffling over whether to villainize or defend macho characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025

“Young is waffling on more than whether or not he wants to eat his Danish, Reggie. Waffling. See what I did there?”

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan


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